You understand incorrectly. there is no body of standards that defines what xG means. It loosely translates to the network evolution, but nobody can call bullshit on anyones claims to a specific incremental use of xG because it's meaningless. REAL standards have names, bogus marketing bullshitters use G's.
Do we really need to point out that 3G
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Do we really need to point out that 3G doesn't actually mean ANYTHING? Hell, I'm surprised we're not at 10G or higher now, nothing stops any carrier from one-upping the competition by simply saying "Sprint may have 4G, but we have 5G!!". that's what happens when you make up terms that don't mean anything.
If this is sarcasm, you've WAY overdone the deadpan delivery. If you're serious, you've WAY overdone the gullibility. I just honestly can't tell, you have bested me.
Since when does a SATA cable deliver 1s and 0s? It delivers an analog voltage, that happens to be determined as a 1 or 0 by noise thresholds. They could be making a better cable, the problem is once you meet the noise margins for this digital interpretation all extra improvement are for nothing.
Don't be pedantic. The statement is perfectly correct. Or else you invite jackassery like "the glyphs '1' and '0' aren't really the values one and zero, they're just symbols that our eyes see and our brain converts to those concepts". seriously, let it go.
The Kindle has other benefits, like battery life - but eyestrain is NOT one of them. I can't read more than a page or two on that grayish low contrast screen without starting to hate it.
People who complain abut eyestrain have not looked at a good LCD with appropriate brightness controls, or are looking at the LCD in conditions they would not have even been able to read a Kindle. Background light is important for LCD use too...
I'm sick to death of hearing people parrot "eyestrain" as a benefit of e-ink over LCD. It's total bullshit. Reading with the low contrast grey on lighter grey e-ink is a MUCH more fatiguing experience in almost every scenario except for bright sunlight. It's almost like the two technologies are good for remarkably different things, with little overlap.
I may be alone, but I actually own BOTH an ipad and a kindle, and use whichever one is best suited to the situation at hand. This works well for me because I'm not some kind of juvenile freak who insists that every device I buy be the wonder tool that does everything, or it's junk. Also, I'm not broke, so I can afford it.
I guess we define "shows off" differently where I come from.
I guess I'm old fashioned, but I don't recall ever seeing someone "show off" by showing poor quality mockups of something they never actually intend to make.
I know reading the article and doing a couple google searches is challenging
agreed, but I suggest you try it anyway. Find a state where a motorcycle fitted as the movie lightcycles would be "street legal", I will hold my breath while you do so.
This isn't their first rodeo. They also build custom "normal" motorcycles.
If you knew anything about the custom motorcycle business, you'd know that it's almost synonymous with mismanagement, fraud, overconfidence, overpromising and underdelivering. And by all accounts, this IS their "first time at the rodeo" building anything remotely like this.
Tell you what, I'll come back to this thread in 8 weeks, the amount of time they claim to be shipping 5 of these bikes in. If anything that will even ROLL exists, I will take it all back. Otherwise, we'll just consider you a bit gullible.
Oh baby, the thought of being able to crimp my own AV cables to the CORRECT length is actually giving me sexual arousal. I'm so F'ing sick of having to measure and special order cables to get within 3 feet of the correct length. Being able to make my own cables would be a godsend.
From the Ebay listing it says these bikes are designed for everyday street use. If that's the case, how the hell is that bike supposed to turn? There appears to be no way for the front wheel to steer. Anyone have any idea how the hell this would work?
The Ebay listing is a testament to one part wishful thinking, one part overconfidence, and two parts willful fraud.
The photos is the listing are of the non-functional movie promo prop, not anything these guys are selling, or even OWN.
For the bikes to be street legal, then by definition can't look anything like the movie bikes because they need things like headlights, turn signals, etc.
The best part is the claim that the bikes will be ready in 6-8 weeks...RIGHT!!
I'll believe these guys aren't trying to outright steal from gullible people as soon as they can show a photo of something they didn't just scrape from Tron movie promotions.
Read "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" by Charles Mackay (first published in 1841). His book discusses Tulip-mania in the Netherlands and witch persecutions (and many more incidents) to illustrate the distinct LACK of wisdom of crowds.
The best part is to read it and mentally substitute the words "tulip bulb" with "dot com stock" and you'll never again believe people are wise, or will ever learn from history
You know, when cable first came out, they touted the lack of ads, since you were paying for the shows with your subscription.. Then they slowly creeped in, more and more...
What exactly are you talking about? "Cable" is a delivery method, not a network. What NETWORK said "no ads" but then started putting them in? Don't have an example, do you? Cable television was NEVER promoted as ad free. I don't even recall a network that claimed to be 100% free of ads, only free from commercial breaks during programs (which has not changed).
You can spend 15 minutes on a free porn site with downthemall and collect more porn than my buddies and I had combined when we were teenagers 20 years ago. And it will be waaaaaaaaaaaaay dirtier.
Just watch, this is going to represent a MAJOR generation gap between those of us who were teenages prior to the Internet, and those who grow up afterwards.
When we were kids, porn was a very timid and meager thing, maybe a playboy or if your dad was really a perve, a Hustler here and there. We had no video, no hardcore sex, no girl/girl, no monkeys, donkeys, etc.
Now kids get instantaneous access to unlimited depths of perversion at a whim. This is going to have VERY real results in sexual expression, that adults are not going to understand in the slightest.
I'm just going to say it now. You kids get off my lawn.
We have now redefined the term "bionic" down to the point where rubber tipped rods screwed into a bone is the same as The Six Million Dollar Man.
Typical journalistic nonsense. They missed the real story being the advance in the skin-to-prosthesis interface, and jazzed it up with some fancy sounding terms...which they used incorrectly.
Re:Some Cisco marketing person must be fired!
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Some Cisco marketing person screwed up bigtime: he (presumably) saw a huge pile of money from Apple, but doesn't see all the hidden damage done to Cisco as now their flagship product, IOS, becomes unsearchable on the web at large and hugely confused in the future.
This was my instant first thought as well, and it tells me that even companies like Cisco are employing senior people who have no concept of the permanence of this "internet" thing.
By licensing usage of their brand name by a product with VASTLY larger public exposure (there's a lot more iphone/ipod users than network engineers), you lose your brand identity in the noise.
There's no going back from a mistake like this either. There's no putting the genie back in the bottle, indexes are forever.
Re:iOS 4 ignored IMO the two biggest feature defic
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1: A notification system that doesn't use annoying modal popups
2: Speech-to-text into all fields
(*note* I refrained from mentioning the AT&T lock-in, but we all know it's an issue)
How about "wireless sync"? Can someone tell me why a wireless device has to be plugged in to sync a damn MP3 file? I have no less than 6 apps on my iPhone that do some form of wireless sync with my PC, but the core phone features dont' support it. I'm sure we know the reason: "Steve doesn't like it", but what I want to know is WHY??
It seems you missed the part where the mercury provides the smooth surface, not the bowl.
The bowl gives it shape, the mercury gives it the ultra smooth mirror.
It seems you missed the irony of the supposition.
The immaturity of ideas like this lies in stating that " 'x' technology isn't good enough, so we should use 'y' technology", while overlooking the fact that 'x' technology actually exists, while 'y' does not.
Spinning mercury may theoretically make better mirrors than grinding glass, but grinding glass actually WORKS BITCHES! Suckit mercury!! (note: do not suck mercury)
Put a drop of mercury in a bowl and spin the bowl. The mercury will spread out to a concave reflective surface smoother than anything we can make with plain old glass right now..
so our bowl making technology exceeds our bowl shaped mirror technology? seems like we could just hire the bowl makers and fire the current crop of mirror makers, problem solved.
Right off the bat I can tell you this entire possibility is being posited by someone who never spent a day in uniform. The waistband is the worst possible place for this, from a practical perspective.
Reason being, a fully uniformed soldier already has at his waist line:
underwear
undershirt
pants waistband
pants belt
blouse tail
pistol/equipment belt
when a soldier already has six layers converging at his waist, adding wiring/sensors is not going to be popular. The sensation of peeling embedded underwear waistband out of sweaty flesh is not a positive one.
It's an interesting comparison, but let's keep in mind that "porting" an app from one platform to another is not a zero sum game. Efficiencies can be gained, or lost based on the compiler or the person rewriting the code. a 90% performance penalty in poorly compiled code would not be unusual. Raw mathematical computations like Linpack performs are most useful, but since this version runs on top of a Java platform, the system overhead is already probably higher than the Cray has to slog through. So the phone could possibly be even higher (raw) performing than this shows.
Really? The card my SSN was printed on specifically says it is not to be used for identification.
that's very true. the CARD is not to be used for ID purposes, the number however has no purpose whatsoever outside of the context of the word "identification". It's a freakin' ID number.
Honestly, I don't get the almost pathological paranoia people have surrounding the concept of privacy, without regard to the reality of it. Your fingerprints are not private, you leave thousands of them unsecured around you every day without a second thought...exactly why they should NOT be used as a security key, but that's a different discussion. People should be worried about the improper use and implementation of "security" methodologies, not acting like tinfoil hat wearing nutjobs because someone wants to store the fingerprints they leave on every doorknob in the city.
Same goes for Social Security number paranoia. News flash people, your SSN is NOT private, it is not a secret, it is an identification number...nothing more. No different from the street address on your house, just more permanent. The problem comes from institutions USING it like it was secret, instead of a password or PIN. The solution is not to try to belatedly make SSN something it isn't and won't ever be, the solution is to refuse to accept companies using public information (your SSN number) as if it were secret.
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You understand incorrectly. there is no body of standards that defines what xG means. It loosely translates to the network evolution, but nobody can call bullshit on anyones claims to a specific incremental use of xG because it's meaningless. REAL standards have names, bogus marketing bullshitters use G's.
Do we really need to point out that 3G doesn't actually mean ANYTHING? Hell, I'm surprised we're not at 10G or higher now, nothing stops any carrier from one-upping the competition by simply saying "Sprint may have 4G, but we have 5G!!". that's what happens when you make up terms that don't mean anything.
If this is sarcasm, you've WAY overdone the deadpan delivery. If you're serious, you've WAY overdone the gullibility. I just honestly can't tell, you have bested me.
Since when does a SATA cable deliver 1s and 0s? It delivers an analog voltage, that happens to be determined as a 1 or 0 by noise thresholds. They could be making a better cable, the problem is once you meet the noise margins for this digital interpretation all extra improvement are for nothing.
Don't be pedantic. The statement is perfectly correct. Or else you invite jackassery like "the glyphs '1' and '0' aren't really the values one and zero, they're just symbols that our eyes see and our brain converts to those concepts". seriously, let it go.
The Kindle has other benefits, like battery life - but eyestrain is NOT one of them. I can't read more than a page or two on that grayish low contrast screen without starting to hate it.
People who complain abut eyestrain have not looked at a good LCD with appropriate brightness controls, or are looking at the LCD in conditions they would not have even been able to read a Kindle. Background light is important for LCD use too...
I'm sick to death of hearing people parrot "eyestrain" as a benefit of e-ink over LCD. It's total bullshit. Reading with the low contrast grey on lighter grey e-ink is a MUCH more fatiguing experience in almost every scenario except for bright sunlight. It's almost like the two technologies are good for remarkably different things, with little overlap.
I may be alone, but I actually own BOTH an ipad and a kindle, and use whichever one is best suited to the situation at hand. This works well for me because I'm not some kind of juvenile freak who insists that every device I buy be the wonder tool that does everything, or it's junk. Also, I'm not broke, so I can afford it.
I guess we define "shows off" differently where I come from.
I guess I'm old fashioned, but I don't recall ever seeing someone "show off" by showing poor quality mockups of something they never actually intend to make.
I know reading the article and doing a couple google searches is challenging
agreed, but I suggest you try it anyway. Find a state where a motorcycle fitted as the movie lightcycles would be "street legal", I will hold my breath while you do so.
This isn't their first rodeo. They also build custom "normal" motorcycles.
If you knew anything about the custom motorcycle business, you'd know that it's almost synonymous with mismanagement, fraud, overconfidence, overpromising and underdelivering. And by all accounts, this IS their "first time at the rodeo" building anything remotely like this.
Tell you what, I'll come back to this thread in 8 weeks, the amount of time they claim to be shipping 5 of these bikes in. If anything that will even ROLL exists, I will take it all back. Otherwise, we'll just consider you a bit gullible.
Oh baby, the thought of being able to crimp my own AV cables to the CORRECT length is actually giving me sexual arousal. I'm so F'ing sick of having to measure and special order cables to get within 3 feet of the correct length. Being able to make my own cables would be a godsend.
From the Ebay listing it says these bikes are designed for everyday street use. If that's the case, how the hell is that bike supposed to turn? There appears to be no way for the front wheel to steer. Anyone have any idea how the hell this would work?
The Ebay listing is a testament to one part wishful thinking, one part overconfidence, and two parts willful fraud.
The photos is the listing are of the non-functional movie promo prop, not anything these guys are selling, or even OWN.
For the bikes to be street legal, then by definition can't look anything like the movie bikes because they need things like headlights, turn signals, etc.
The best part is the claim that the bikes will be ready in 6-8 weeks...RIGHT!!
I'll believe these guys aren't trying to outright steal from gullible people as soon as they can show a photo of something they didn't just scrape from Tron movie promotions.
Read "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" by Charles Mackay (first published in 1841). His book discusses Tulip-mania in the Netherlands and witch persecutions (and many more incidents) to illustrate the distinct LACK of wisdom of crowds.
The best part is to read it and mentally substitute the words "tulip bulb" with "dot com stock" and you'll never again believe people are wise, or will ever learn from history
You know, when cable first came out, they touted the lack of ads, since you were paying for the shows with your subscription.. Then they slowly creeped in, more and more...
What exactly are you talking about? "Cable" is a delivery method, not a network. What NETWORK said "no ads" but then started putting them in? Don't have an example, do you? Cable television was NEVER promoted as ad free. I don't even recall a network that claimed to be 100% free of ads, only free from commercial breaks during programs (which has not changed).
You can spend 15 minutes on a free porn site with downthemall and collect more porn than my buddies and I had combined when we were teenagers 20 years ago. And it will be waaaaaaaaaaaaay dirtier.
Just watch, this is going to represent a MAJOR generation gap between those of us who were teenages prior to the Internet, and those who grow up afterwards.
When we were kids, porn was a very timid and meager thing, maybe a playboy or if your dad was really a perve, a Hustler here and there. We had no video, no hardcore sex, no girl/girl, no monkeys, donkeys, etc.
Now kids get instantaneous access to unlimited depths of perversion at a whim. This is going to have VERY real results in sexual expression, that adults are not going to understand in the slightest.
I'm just going to say it now. You kids get off my lawn.
In short, studies are not needed here - it is common sense that flash will kill the battery on many devices, and it can also be easily observed.
mistaking what one thinks is "common sense" for a benchmark is what separates amateurs from professionals.
By all means, take "picking up chicks" advice from a guy who thinks a fallout symbol is a cool/original tattoo.
Tattoos...so you can be original, just like everyone else.
We have now redefined the term "bionic" down to the point where rubber tipped rods screwed into a bone is the same as The Six Million Dollar Man. Typical journalistic nonsense. They missed the real story being the advance in the skin-to-prosthesis interface, and jazzed it up with some fancy sounding terms...which they used incorrectly.
Some Cisco marketing person screwed up bigtime: he (presumably) saw a huge pile of money from Apple, but doesn't see all the hidden damage done to Cisco as now their flagship product, IOS, becomes unsearchable on the web at large and hugely confused in the future.
This was my instant first thought as well, and it tells me that even companies like Cisco are employing senior people who have no concept of the permanence of this "internet" thing.
By licensing usage of their brand name by a product with VASTLY larger public exposure (there's a lot more iphone/ipod users than network engineers), you lose your brand identity in the noise.
There's no going back from a mistake like this either. There's no putting the genie back in the bottle, indexes are forever.
1: A notification system that doesn't use annoying modal popups 2: Speech-to-text into all fields (*note* I refrained from mentioning the AT&T lock-in, but we all know it's an issue)
How about "wireless sync"? Can someone tell me why a wireless device has to be plugged in to sync a damn MP3 file? I have no less than 6 apps on my iPhone that do some form of wireless sync with my PC, but the core phone features dont' support it. I'm sure we know the reason: "Steve doesn't like it", but what I want to know is WHY??
It seems you missed the part where the mercury provides the smooth surface, not the bowl.
The bowl gives it shape, the mercury gives it the ultra smooth mirror.
It seems you missed the irony of the supposition.
The immaturity of ideas like this lies in stating that " 'x' technology isn't good enough, so we should use 'y' technology", while overlooking the fact that 'x' technology actually exists, while 'y' does not.
Spinning mercury may theoretically make better mirrors than grinding glass, but grinding glass actually WORKS BITCHES! Suckit mercury!! (note: do not suck mercury)
Put a drop of mercury in a bowl and spin the bowl. The mercury will spread out to a concave reflective surface smoother than anything we can make with plain old glass right now..
so our bowl making technology exceeds our bowl shaped mirror technology? seems like we could just hire the bowl makers and fire the current crop of mirror makers, problem solved.
Right off the bat I can tell you this entire possibility is being posited by someone who never spent a day in uniform. The waistband is the worst possible place for this, from a practical perspective.
Reason being, a fully uniformed soldier already has at his waist line:
underwear
undershirt
pants waistband
pants belt
blouse tail
pistol/equipment belt
when a soldier already has six layers converging at his waist, adding wiring/sensors is not going to be popular. The sensation of peeling embedded underwear waistband out of sweaty flesh is not a positive one.
It's an interesting comparison, but let's keep in mind that "porting" an app from one platform to another is not a zero sum game. Efficiencies can be gained, or lost based on the compiler or the person rewriting the code. a 90% performance penalty in poorly compiled code would not be unusual. Raw mathematical computations like Linpack performs are most useful, but since this version runs on top of a Java platform, the system overhead is already probably higher than the Cray has to slog through. So the phone could possibly be even higher (raw) performing than this shows.
My physicians, dentists, osteopaths and chiropractors refer to me as "Mr.";
That makes sense, as chiropractors aren't real doctors.
Except that I'd take it a step farther and instead of calling a chiropractor "mr", I'd call him "jackass".
Really? The card my SSN was printed on specifically says it is not to be used for identification.
that's very true. the CARD is not to be used for ID purposes, the number however has no purpose whatsoever outside of the context of the word "identification". It's a freakin' ID number.
Honestly, I don't get the almost pathological paranoia people have surrounding the concept of privacy, without regard to the reality of it. Your fingerprints are not private, you leave thousands of them unsecured around you every day without a second thought...exactly why they should NOT be used as a security key, but that's a different discussion. People should be worried about the improper use and implementation of "security" methodologies, not acting like tinfoil hat wearing nutjobs because someone wants to store the fingerprints they leave on every doorknob in the city.
Same goes for Social Security number paranoia. News flash people, your SSN is NOT private, it is not a secret, it is an identification number...nothing more. No different from the street address on your house, just more permanent. The problem comes from institutions USING it like it was secret, instead of a password or PIN. The solution is not to try to belatedly make SSN something it isn't and won't ever be, the solution is to refuse to accept companies using public information (your SSN number) as if it were secret.
I tried...I tried really hard and almost soiled myself with the effort, but I just can't care about my browser history being "stolen".
that's like calling my garbage being stolen every week when the big truck comes and takes it away.
Hell, the more time people spend stealing browser histories is time they're not spending doing something I do care about, so keep at it!